2017 Outlook

[High Voltage]

We will surprise some people!

Three wins are gimme's.
Florida A&M
New Mexico State
Coastal Carolina
3-0

Games we are certainly the better team and will win.
TCU
Texas A&M
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Missouri
8-0

Games we are equal to our opponent.
South Carolina (They are still learning the new system we should win. Being it is at SC will make it interesting.)
Auburn (Gus is on the hot seat as well but we get the at DWRRS.)
LSU (At Death Valley makes this hard for us.)
10-1

Games we lose.
Alabama @ Alabama
10-2

[beach bum]

We will surprise some people!

Three wins are gimme's.
Florida A&M
New Mexico State
Coastal Carolina
3-0

Games we are certainly the better team and will win.
TCU
Texas A&M
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Missouri
8-0

Games we are equal to our opponent.
South Carolina (They are still learning the new system we should win. Being it is at SC will make it interesting.)
Auburn (Gus is on the hot seat as well but we get the at DWRRS.)
LSU (At Death Valley makes this hard for us.)
10-1

Games we lose.
Alabama @ Alabama
10-2

I am pretty sure this is sarcasm right?

[Romeo]

Tells a lot about the future of a stadium when a high school game on Saturday might have more fans than a Razorback game.

[beach bum]

Tells a lot about the future of a stadium when a high school game on Saturday might have more fans than a Razorback game.

That is honestly embarrassing when it showed the totality of the crowd.... You can tell Allen is going to get crushed when we start playing real opponents. Florida A&M is getting pressure. I seriously feel bad for AA having to play behind that line.

[WPWells]

Defense good. Offense bad.

[WPWells]

Update (I know it's a bad team but still):

Defense really good. Offense good.

[High Voltage]

I am pretty sure this is sarcasm right?

No

[High Voltage]

We will be fine. People need to quit scrutinizing everything.

[HorseFeathers]

Last I saw we are a 48 point favorite in Vegas.... I knew Florida A&M is one of the worst teams even in FCS lately. But a 7 score favorite??

Gonna come close to covering it

[beach bum]

We will be fine. People need to quit scrutinizing everything.

We are fans.... That is what we do. You need to take your homer glasses off. Allen is going to be running for his life again. It's plain as day. 8 wins would require us to win the majority of our close games we end up in. That is the ceiling of this team from what we saw tonight if that is what we are as a team.

[WPWells]

I don't know, beach bum... I was pretty impressed with our defense tonight.

[HorseFeathers]

We are fans.... That is what we do. You need to take your homer glasses off. Allen is going to be running for his life again. It's plain as day. 8 wins would require us to win the majority of our close games we end up in. That is the ceiling of this team from what we saw tonight if that is what we are as a team.

Watched most of the 1st half.....Oline needs a bunch of work on pass protection......looked and sounds like our defense played as expected tonight...

[beach bum]

I don't know, beach bum... I was pretty impressed with our defense tonight.

I think this showed we will be much better against those spread teams and teams that don't use overpowering you as a means to win games. The teams I am still worried about are still the obvious power teams of LSU, Auburn, and Bama that are capable of lining up and running down hill on people. I think the defense will certainly fair better against the likes of Texas A&M, TCU, Ole Miss, and Mizzou. I agree they looked like they may be better suited to cover those offenses.

[WPWells]

Definitely an improvement over last year any way you slice it

[AirWarren]

Tells a lot about the future of a stadium when a high school game on Saturday might have more fans than a Razorback game.

Give a stadium a shotty opponent on a Thursday night and that's the result.

Ready to just hand it over.

I want to remember tons of memories and great games at WMS instead of FAMU and Toledo.

[LRRandy]

I don't know, beach bum... I was pretty impressed with our defense tonight.

hold that thought until you see how they do against a team with a pulse. If they look lie that against TCU then you are onto something. I watched Agim most of the night. He blew up many plays with penetration. He is a stud.

[bleudog]

Update (I know it's a bad team but still):

Defense really good. Offense good.

It was a MEAC team.  I had told the folks I work with my prediction was 62-7.

Frank's gone, put UAPB on the schedule.

[cuckoobird]

+1

[urban legend2]

From what I saw, the O-Line needs work, particularly in pass protection, because if they played like that against even decent teams, the Hogs would be in trouble. For most of the night, Allen looked uncomfortable whenever he dropped back. ... The RBs did what they were supposed to do against a highly inferior opponent. ... Hard to gauge the improvement of the defense because FAMU didn't attack downfield until the one drive late that they scored on, but the defensive line was very active. Overall, not a whole lot you can tell from this one, aside from the O-line needing some work.

[AirWarren]

It was a MEAC team.  I had told the folks I work with my prediction was 62-7.

Frank's gone, put UAPB on the schedule.

Uapb. A state.

[HorseFeathers]

Uapb. A state.

UCA

[Redwolves8526]

Uapb. A state.

They scurred

[AirWarren]

They scurred

We played an astate equivalent last night. Not scared.

[urban legend2]

We played an astate equivalent last night. Not scared.

FAMU is closer to being a UAPB equivolent than ASU...trust me.

[LRRandy]

We played an astate equivalent last night. Not scared.

FAMU plays at a much lower level than AState. Probably as equal a step down as from UofA to AState.

[bleudog]

FAMU is an FCS team that plays in the MEAC

Last year's WMS opponent was Alcorn.
Alcorn is an FCS team that plays in the SWAC

Neither the MEAC or the SWAC choose to participate in the FCS football playoff.  The champions from each conference play each other and it's billed as the HBCU National Championship.

UAPB is an FCS team that plays in the SWAC

My point was, if Arkansas is going to schedule MEAC or SWAC teams, they might as well schedule UAPB rather than funding the programs of UAPB's conference members.

[gameoflife]

Well, had to judge what success we will have from last nights game.   Offense didn't look impressive, OL needs work. 

[cuckoobird]

Austin will be running for his life in SEC play. After watching the performance by the offensive line, we may not win 5 games this year.

[High Voltage]

We are fans.... That is what we do. You need to take your homer glasses off. Allen is going to be running for his life again. It's plain as day. 8 wins would require us to win the majority of our close games we end up in. That is the ceiling of this team from what we saw tonight if that is what we are as a team.

Give them some time to gell. We are going to smoke TCU.

[cuckoobird]

Give them some time to gell. We are going to smoke TCU.

TCU will go vertical and when FAMU finally did that, they scored. We're in trouble unless something changes

[AirWarren]

TCU will go vertical and when FAMU finally did that, they scored. We're in trouble unless something changes

On the second/third team unit. From what radio stated.

[bdubyab60]

JMO. Still only the first game. But defensively we looked ok, or least somewhat improved from last year. Last year that team scores 20 plus on us. But TCU should be a good measuring stick.

Offensively I expected a slow start. Allen still holds on to the ball to long and is still staring down receivers. He has to improve or he will get himself killed, plus he will have a ton of INT's again. His decision making has got to get better.

The Oline looks to have the same problems as last year. Missing assignments and so on. To many free shots on our Allen isn't going to help him improve.

Running backs looked pretty good despite some poor blocking. I was really impressed with the Hayden kid.

Hard for the receivers to look good when your QB isn't making good throws and good decisions with his throws.

Nice to see us kicking it through the end zone and covering kicks well.

7 wins with a bowl win

[WPWells]

FAMU had <100 yards until the second/third team came in. Don't act like they had any success with anything on offense against our first team defense.

[LRRandy]

FAMU had <100 yards until the second/third team came in. Don't act like they had any success with anything on offense against our first team defense.

Glad you're okay with how they looked and not concerned

[nuttinbuthogs]

I hope the Hogs are not going to be disappointing! Again!!!

[Lumberjackfan1978]

I hope the Hogs are not going to be disappointing! Again!!!

Me to but I think theirs a good chance they might. I hope not.

[beach bum]

Uapb. A state.

We probably didn't want to play A State this year. They only lost by 7 to Nebraska last night. I almost didn't believe the score when I saw it.

[AirWarren]

We probably didn't want to play A State this year. They only lost by 7 to Nebraska last night. I almost didn't believe the score when I saw it.

Nebraska. Please. Wash ups. Haha

[nuttinbuthogs]

UA is not going to do anything that might benefit the in state colleges.  They will not risk playing them.

[LRRandy]

UA is not going to do anything that might benefit the in state colleges.  They will not risk playing them.

that's a shame too. A lot of big time programs across the college football landscape schedule in state programs.

[beach bum]

that's a shame too. A lot of big time programs across the college football landscape schedule in state programs.

Exactly, we are scared and elitist when we have no basis to be elitist.

[LRRandy]

College Football news preview of TCU game.

http://collegefootballnews.com/2017/09/arkansas-tcu-prediction-game-preview

It is a toss up game. Hogs need to win this to climb the ladder on a good season.

[Redwolves8526]

Nebraska. Please. Wash ups. Haha

ASU had every chance to win that game....all our problems could be solved if we played each other on the first playing date in Little Rock.

[beach bum]

TCU 38 Arkansas 24

[bleudog]

Massey moved Arkansas chance of winning from 58% to 59% and still has the score 31-28 Hogs.

http://www.masseyratings.com/team.php?t=316&s=295489

[Proud Buckaroo]

TCU 38 Arkansas 24

I will always respect a mans opinion. But... no. 

[cuckoobird]

48-24 then?

[Proud Buckaroo]

Not predicting any scores. Just don't think Arkansas loses.

[nuttinbuthogs]

Gosh, UA is hard to get excited about.  I think they will win but I could see them getting upset if TCU can score some points. Arkansas just doesn't look that good. 

[HorseFeathers]

Gosh, UA is hard to get excited about.  I think they will win but I could see them getting upset if TCU can score some points. Arkansas just doesn't look that good. 

Hard to be upset when you aren't favored to wib